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famine by rowan gillespie 1997
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I'm not a great fan of the isolated colour thing but it did seem ok here. I used a paint shop pro "hue/saturation/lightness" adjustment layer to desaturate everything and upsaturate yellows. This is the sculptor's colour, the flaky yellow is an important impact factor.
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So this is one of the stellations I'm experimenting with for a geomantic mandala. It's unicursal— meaning a single thread or line from beginning to end is implied by the ribbon lining the edge of each point — and the line bounces through a rough fourfold symmetry, making it possible to use for an elemental-and-subelemental ordering of the geomantic signs.
But.
It doesn't seem likely that this form will uncover a hidden calendar related to the zodiac. There's no suitable pattern or layout for the geomantic signs which puts their zodiacal relationships in any useful order. I haven't compared these forms with the stabile/mobile relationship, but no correlation seems likely.